Dear community, 

This time, we’re shaking things up and changing the form of our bulletin because we want to invite you to a community-building workshop. Don’t worry though, we’ll keep collecting news, stories, resources, and events, and we’ll send you another update soon.

Invitation to join a community-building workshop: European day of action against SLAPPs

We from the Movement Hub, Greenpeace International, CASE (Coalition against SLAPPs in Europe) and the wider movement for climate and social justice invite you to a coalition building workshop for a European day of action against SLAPPs on 10 June 17:00-19:00 (CEST). Registration link 

The inviting organisations and networks want to co-develop this decentralised Day of Action with as many of you as possible. Every group, organisation and network that is fighting for a better world and is tired of corporate intimidation and oppression. We want your ideas for how this Day of Action can be organised in your city, amplified by each other, and connected across borders and movements.

Why is this event happening?

Earlier this year a jury of nine in North Dakota found Greenpeace in the US and Greenpeace International liable for USD$660 million in a baseless lawsuit brought by oil pipeline giant Energy Transfer. This case can set an example, for better or worse. So on 2 July 2025, a court  in Amsterdam will hold an initial administrative hearing in the first test case of the European Union’s new anti-SLAPP directive, where Greenpeace International seeks to recover the damages as a result of Energy Transfer’s successive SLAPP suits against it in the United States.

This is a crucial test of the new directive. EU member states have until 7 May  2026 to bring the directive into their national laws but so far little progress has been made. This is why we, together with you, want to organise a European Day of  Action against SLAPPs to:
1. Project solidarity and resistance against corporate intimidation and SLAPPs
2. Push EU member states to enforce the EU SLAPP directive in a way that provides robust and meaningful protection against SLAPPs (in line with the CASE standards for transposition)
3. Discourage billionaires and oligarchs from using SLAPPs

We want to use the first anti-SLAPP directive administrative hearing in Amsterdam on 2 July as a moment to coordinate responses in several European capitals.

If you have any questions or ideas you want to share before the workshop, feel free to reach out to [email protected].

Together we can stand up to this corporate takeover!

About Legally Green

Since autumn of 2022, the Movement Hub coordinates Legally Green – an informal network of lawyers who support activists across Europe and activist-led legal support groups. The network has over 100 members from over 60 organizations in more than 20 countries in Europe.

The network operates via mailing list and meets bi-monthly to share experience, discuss cases, trends, get help, learn from each other to increase our collective capacities to resist legal repressions. Contact [email protected] if you have any questions, or wish to join the network.